International Triennal of Paper Art Deggendorf 2012

20 May 2012 – 16 Sep­tem­ber 2012at the Mu­se­um and the Mu­se­um of Han­di­crafts of the town of Deg­gen­dorf

The mu­se­ums of the town of Deg­gen­dorf car­ry on with the suc­cess­ful se­ries of events re­gar­ding ex­hi­bi­ti­ons of pa­per art. For the first ti­me, “Pa­per Glo­bal II – Glo­bal Pa­per II” is shown in the frame of an in­ter­na­tio­nal tri­en­ni­al. Craft­wor­kers and ar­tists from all over the world who are spe­cia­li­zed in pa­per art are al­lo­wed to ap­p­ly for par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in this com­pe­ti­ti­on by pre­sen­ting up to three works of pa­per art which ha­ve be­en ma­de by their own hands du­ring the past three ye­ars. A ju­ry will ma­ke a selec­tion of the works that are de­si­gna­ted for the ex­hi­bi­ti­on in Deg­gen­dorf. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on will be do­cu­men­ted by me­ans of a ca­ta­lo­gue in which one work per par­ti­ci­pant will be shown.The ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line is 27th Fe­bru­ary 2012. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on can be found on the Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on form with in­for­ma­ti­on on the ex­hi­bi­ti­on.

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on will be in­au­gu­ra­ted on Sa­tur­day, 19th May at ni­n­e­teen o’clock. On Sun­day, 20th May we per­form a gre­at pa­per fes­ti­vi­ty and a pa­per mar­ket at the mu­se­ums of Deg­gen­dorf. Ac­com­pany­ing the ex­hi­bi­ti­on the­re will be a si­mul­ta­neous pro­gram­me with work­shops, mu­se­um pe­dago­gy pro­gram­mes, fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on for teachers, et ce­te­ra.

Pa­per is one of tho­se ma­te­ri­als that ha­ve be­en used by man­kind from ti­me im­me­mo­ri­al. On­ce pa­per had be­en in­tro­du­ced it was lar­ge­ly pos­si­ble to put the his­to­ry of man­kind down in wri­ting. Be­fo­re the in­dus­tri­al re­vo­lu­ti­on it was a pre­cious ma­te­ri­al which ne­ver­the­l­ess was wi­de­s­pre­ad in al­most the who­le world. Af­ter that – in­cre­a­sin­gly chea­per for re­a­sons of mass pro­duc­tion – it be­ca­me a munda­ne mass pro­duct of in­credi­b­le di­ver­si­ty and use which spre­ad all over the world.No­wa­days al­most no in­dus­tri­al sec­tor is as cross­lin­ked as the pa­per in­dus­try.

Craft­wor­kers and ar­tists from all over the world who are spe­cia­li­zed in pa­per art buck the trend by gi­ving a spe­cial ar­tis­tic si­gni­fi­can­ce to pa­per as a mass pro­duct. Fur­ther­mo­re they pre­ser­ve the tra­di­tio­nal tech­ni­ques of pa­per­ma­king and en­rich them with con­tem­pora­ry ide­as. By me­ans of their crea­ti­vi­ty pa­per al­so re­mains a pre­cious in­di­vi­dual­ly pro­ces­sed ma­te­ri­al in mo­dern ti­mes.

By me­ans of the In­ter­na­tio­nal Tri­en­nal of Pa­per Art in Deg­gen­dorf, the mu­se­ums in­tend to of­fer a sui­ta­ble en­vi­ron­ment for the di­ver­si­ty of pa­per art.